Itaú Unibanco
The largest private bank in Brazil and a leading financial institution in Latin America, with operations spanning retail banking, investment banking and insurance. It is at the industry forefront in digital transformation and the application of generative AI.
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Brazil's largest bank, Itaú Unibanco, is advancing a generative AI program covering its entire customer base, consisting of two core components: ia.i, a user-facing conversational interface, and IARA, an internal-facing AI governance platform.
ia.i is the conversational interaction interface launched by Itaú, designed as a new entry point between customers and banking services, rather than a simple upgraded version of a customer service chatbot.
IARA is Itaú's AI governance platform; as a platform-level solution, Itaú can reuse governance capabilities across multiple AI applications without having to rebuild compliance processes for each new scenario.
Itaú deeply integrates ia.i with its core banking systems, essentially building an 'evidence-based' generation pipeline based on retrieval-augmented generation, anchoring answers to the bank's official data sources.
Itaú emphasizes serving the 'entire customer base' rather than only high-net-worth or young customer segments, which means ia.i needs to handle input from people of all educational backgrounds, digital literacy levels and language habits.
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Brazil's largest bank, Itaú Unibanco, is advancing a generative AI program covering its entire customer base, consisting of two core components: ia.i, a user-facing conversational interface, and IARA, an internal-facing AI governance platform.
50%Unverifiedia.i is the conversational interaction interface launched by Itaú, designed as a new entry point between customers and banking services, rather than a simple upgraded version of a customer service chatbot.
50%UnverifiedIARA is Itaú's AI governance platform; as a platform-level solution, Itaú can reuse governance capabilities across multiple AI applications without having to rebuild compliance processes for each new scenario.
50%UnverifiedItaú deeply integrates ia.i with its core banking systems, essentially building an 'evidence-based' generation pipeline based on retrieval-augmented generation, anchoring answers to the bank's official data sources.
50%UnverifiedItaú emphasizes serving the 'entire customer base' rather than only high-net-worth or young customer segments, which means ia.i needs to handle input from people of all educational backgrounds, digital literacy levels and language habits.
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